Ernest Haycox Standalone Novels books in order

Reading order

Ernest Haycox’s standalone novels make up the bulk of his published work, with more than fifty titles spanning from 1930 to posthumous reprints in the late 1990s. The novels cover familiar Western territory like cattle ranching, frontier lawmen, and the rough justice of boomtowns, but Haycox brought a careful attention to character and landscape that elevated his work above standard genre fare.

Many of these novels were originally serialized in magazines like The Saturday Evening Post and Collier’s before being published as books. Titles like Trail Town, Alder Gulch, and The Earthbreakers deal with the building of communities on the frontier, while others like Man in the Saddle and Sundown Jim focus on lone figures caught between rival factions. Canyon Passage, set in gold rush-era Oregon, became a 1946 film directed by Jacques Tourneur.